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by akgerber 10y ago
How do the wages compare? My impression is that they're significantly less in Europe.
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by akgerber 10y ago
My first job out of school was at Qualcomm. The lunch options are actually pretty great (Mexican/Indian/Afghan/Thai/Chinese/French/Donut Touch/whatever you want) in Sorrento Valley, and it's located n
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by akgerber 10y ago
Pittsburgh's weather isn't exactly mild. And its roadways are profoundly complex, both due to very steep topography and due to being a city trying to keep up extensive infrastructure after losing half its population. Examples: ht
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by akgerber 10y ago
If capitalism isn't authoritarian, that means people can opt out of state application of property rights to land, right? Without going to jail or getting shot, right?
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by akgerber 10y ago
Not too complicated an equation— one can find a basic room in a share for $1k a month uptown or in Chinatown, plus $110/month for a Metrocard or $10/month for Citibike, plus a reasonable amount of money for food like $300/mon
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by akgerber 10y ago
In practice, cities with a lot of single people and a lot of large units just result in a lot of roommate situations— which many people like, but many others don't. And roommates can pretty much always outbid families for housing.
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by akgerber 10y ago
Parking laws did, pretty much, fall from the sky one day on a bunch of stone tablets, usually reflecting terrible data. if you want to read 750 pages on the topic, read Donald Shoup's The High Cost of Free Parking. They usually are des
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by akgerber 10y ago
The broader context is that much of Seattle is tightly zoned to disallow anything other than single-family homes, which prevents in practice prevents the city from adding modestly-sized cheap units: http://www.seattlemet.com&#x2F
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by akgerber 10y ago
Yes— but it hasn't been cost-competitive with a driver-owned car for daily drivers (given free/subsidized parking and roadway space, as we have in the US).
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by akgerber 10y ago
Cranking out houses meeting a real-estate checklist perfectly describes, say, Brooklyn brownstones— but they also have far more elegant facades.
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by akgerber 10y ago
I live in Brooklyn. It's twice as dense as San Francisco. It doesn't have very many high-rises. It is getting ever-more packed with rich people.
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by akgerber 10y ago
Even without a kitchen, an electric pressure/slow cooker goes a pretty damn long way.
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by akgerber 10y ago
Depends— if you're a single adult in NYC, a decent bedroom in a share can be had for $1000 with heat and gas included (and that's also a normal way of living for successful adults), and one doesn't need a car, so bills needn&
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by akgerber 10y ago
Shaming is ineffective. But suspension of the driving privilege should be a more widely-used tool, as should automated traffic enforcement— especially with regards to speeds in urban areas.
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by akgerber 10y ago
Blame and jail time are essentially never applied, even in egregious cases, at least in New York City. Families have to fight for DAs to charge even unlicensed drivers that end up on the sidewalk: http://abc7ny.com/news&#x2F
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by akgerber 10y ago
The word 'accident' is used by many even to describe hit-and-runs that may have been intentional: http://nypost.com/2016/07/02/cyclist-killed-in-hit-and-run/
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by akgerber 10y ago
Hi TP-Link! Remember to renew http://tplinkplclogin.net/ before 06-May-2018!
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by akgerber 10y ago
These days, the purpose of an IPO is as much or more to provide liquidity to insiders as it is to actually raise capital.
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by akgerber 10y ago
I remember looking for something like Spectacle when setting up my first dual-monitor Mac in 2010 and not being able to find it— and when I was doing so again in around 2013 I was delighted that it had come into existence. Macs feel so much
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by akgerber 10y ago
This also happens in New York— one can buy an apartment with a rent-stabilized tenant in a building which has been converted to a coop. The tenant has a right to lease renewals until they die (and any family living with them at time of deat
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by akgerber 10y ago
Most streets in older parts of the country were not designed for people to drive on, and plenty of children played on them. Motor vehicles simply killed enough children when they first became common that children were forced elsewhere. htt
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by akgerber 10y ago
There are subway lines going to New Jersey— they are just operated by the Port Authority as the PATH.
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Most of the outer boroughs, especially Brooklyn and the Bronx, were developed in the pre-automobile era around subways. And many of the suburbs beyond were developed around railroad lines. Moses did indeed emphasize highways at the expense
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by akgerber 10y ago
Elevators are very expensive to build and operate— requiring every new multifamily building contain one would significantly increase the cost of urban housing by outlawing many common forms of building, and effectively preclude homeownershi
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by akgerber 10y ago
The areas surrounding Manhattan are very safe (especially by American urban standards) and the MTA is an reasonably capable railroad operator. It's terrible at capital projects, however.
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Many buildings in NYC are built as-of-right— within current zoning code. As-of-right building is much quicker and cheaper than getting a variance, which is partially why New York. New walk-up buildings are perfectly common in the outer boro
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by akgerber 10y ago
A lot of very tall residential buildings for the ultra-rich are going up right now: http://ny.curbed.com/maps/mapping-the-rise-of-new-york-citys...
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Not Manhattan, or most other dense cities. There is simply not enough room for every human being who wants to visit to have 50 square feet of steel, rubber, and plastic around them.
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I live in a tenement in Brooklyn. It's perfectly nice.
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Most buildings in Manhattan are old. Many of them are larger than current zoning would allow. It is very hard to change zoning law, or the political status quo in general, in wealthy neighborhoods in Manhattan— we have accreted a process th

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